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Journal Article
The liver-enriched lnc-LFAR1 promotes liver fibrosis by activating TGFβ and Notch pathways
2017
Overview
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in various biological processes such as proliferation, cell death and differentiation. Here, we show that a liver-enriched lncRNA, named liver fibrosis-associated lncRNA1 (lnc-LFAR1), promotes liver fibrosis. We demonstrate that lnc-LFAR1 silencing impairs hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) activation, reduces TGFβ-induced hepatocytes apoptosis in vitro and attenuates both CCl
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- and bile duct ligation-induced liver fibrosis in mice. Lnc-LFAR1 promotes the binding of Smad2/3 to TGFβR1 and its phosphorylation in the cytoplasm. Lnc-LFAR1 binds directly to Smad2/3 and promotes transcription of TGFβ, Smad2, Smad3, Notch2 and Notch3 which, in turn, results in TGFβ and Notch pathway activation. We show that the TGFβ1/Smad2/3/lnc-LFAR1 pathway provides a positive feedback loop to increase Smad2/3 response and a novel link connecting TGFβ with Notch pathway. Our work identifies a liver-enriched lncRNA that regulates liver fibrogenesis and suggests it as a potential target for fibrosis treatment.
Activated hepatic stellate cells are the principal contributors to liver fibrosis by secreting a variety of pro-fibrogenic cytokines . Here Zhang et al. demonstrate that a liver-enriched lncRNA, lnc-LFAR1, promotes liver fibrosis and HSC activation by activating TGFβ and Notch signaling.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
/ Animals
/ Bile
/ Fibrosis
/ Gene Expression Profiling - methods
/ Hepatic Stellate Cells - metabolism
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Liver
/ Male
/ Receptors, Notch - metabolism
/ RNA, Long Noncoding - genetics
/ Science
/ Signal Transduction - genetics
/ Transforming Growth Factor beta1 - genetics
